Noospheric Software Foundation

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Let's Put Our Heads Together, While We Can

Humanity's next thinking technology, designed on purpose: a Merged Mental Model where diverse perspectives combine rather than clash, and ThinkerToys, its first browser. Why now, who we are, and how you can help.

Absurd Optimism

radical optimism

sometimes the prudent path is to risk it all...

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Can You Detect Deep Fakes?

Would you like to challenge yourself? Can you detect deep fakes? Try it yourself and then see the results of the first study on the subject.

Convergence Ritual

virtual lunch dates

Eating together is one of life's great pleasures. Let's not miss out on it just because we happen to work from home

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deepfake detection checklist – basics

You suspect an image might have been generated by an AI. What should you check for?

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After "uncanny" is "undetectable"

Toto, I've got a feeling we are not in the uncanny valley anymore

World Problematique

Even simple problems are now insoluble

Consider the case of Daylight Savings Time (DST). It goofs up everyone in its grip. It costs billions. It even kills people: speeding, late for work or driving, under slept. It confuses entire nations. We try to turn it off, yet every year it evades eradication merely by requiring that

Convergence Ritual

Zulu is World Time – Let's GoZulu

About one billion people interact daily with someone on another continent. In our increasingly global lives, agreeing on WHEN is ever more a problem...

Toward Alignment

they sleep at our throats

Humans and dogs have co-evolved. Our funny fur buddies have fangs which can end us. We can confuse them with a blanket. We are at peace with them. We are partners. Heck, we love one another. We overwhelm them at tests of IQ and the ability to unpack emojis.

Convergence Ritual

one-on-one mind melds

Two people alone, having a conversation, is an essential and very special thing – let's acknowledge the Vulcans and call it Mind Melding.

Convergence Ritual

rate adaptation

If, when we collaborate with one another, we notice that the interactions are producing favourable results then we might experiment with increasing the frequency of interactions and the promptness of our responses. If the channels that we are using are asynchronous, for instance mail, then augmenting with more synchronous chat

Language Games

What was "Who's On First"?

The timeless classic "Who's on First" was a skit, a bit, a routine – and those are language games. Were any real assertions about a guy named "Who" being made? What did that routine contribute to our knowledge of the world?

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deepfake detection checklist – subtle

You really want to know whether an image is AI generated but it is far from obvious...

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deepfake detection checklist – boss level

There is no point publishing this for bots to find, so sorry, this information is for human eyes only...

Experiments

a self-hosting, realtime knowledge collaboration experiment

Presentation

Bootstrapping the Noosphere

bootstrap (BOOT-strap) verb: Start something complex with minimal outside help. no·o·sphere (NOH-uh-sfeer) noun: The global fusion of mind and machine which is emerging from the biosphere.

Convergence Ritual